Example sentences of "always [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ He 's always off working , is n't he ? ’ |
| 2 | Robb , the brilliant 20-year-old from Liverpool bidding to be the youngest-ever to take the two-lap crown , was always off the pace in the 800 metres , won by Kenyan William Tanui . |
| 3 | People are n't always off work . |
| 4 | The great thing about Angie was that she was always for him . |
| 5 | Off the pitch he gave much time to helping young players , while on it his play was never selfish , always for the team rather than his average ; and there were times when he batted in great pain rather than let the side down . |
| 6 | ‘ The letters will be for me , they are always for me . |
| 7 | Alternatively , the practice has grown up that if the law is not clear , then , given that the possibility of being prosecuted for a crime or sued for damages may exist , albeit as a remote possibility in England , it is better always for the doctor to err on the side of caution and follow the most conservative or restrictive view of the law . |
| 8 | We live in a house of treasure but some disease of the eyes has blinded us so that we search always for vulgar and expensive toys . |
| 9 | Initially , it is probably fair to say that the NHS has always been a prolific collector of data , usually fairly basic data and almost always for bureaucratic purposes whether to satisfy regional or national demands for returns . |
| 10 | When provision is made under further education , it is available only as a group activity , often with a minimum number of participants , always for a set period of time , which may be as long as two hours . |
| 11 | The irony that the rioters mostly destroyed their own pathetic neighbourhood infrastructure has been widely noted , but it was not always for want of trying to take it out on the redoubts of the better element , stretching north up through Beverly Hills , over Mulholland , down into the San Fernando Valley and north again towards the suburban fastnesses of Simi Valley and of Ventura County . |
| 12 | To argue always for unfudgeability is to argue for form over substance with all the waste of capital that entails . |
| 13 | His childhood exposure to life in the streets of a western town , still so new that most of the people who had founded it were still alive , had left him with no illusions about people or their motives , and it was always for the motive behind the question that he looked . |
| 14 | It was always for two million lire . ’ |
| 15 | His preferences were always for medals and engraved gems , and miniatures by artists such as Giulio Clovio , who painted the celebrated ‘ Farnese Hours ’ for him . |
| 16 | The method is always for the researcher to go to live in the community being studied , and to become involved with the residents as a participant observer , but the community researcher will also use a wide variety of other sources of data , as is shown here : |
| 17 | After this Louis XIV spent relatively little money on his navy ; he had to defend his frontiers against the threat of invasion by land through Belgium , and naval supremacy was always for him a secondary consideration . |
| 18 | er position two is always for tur for taking the first turning off the |
| 19 | Yet in everything that really mattered , their concern was always for each other — and of course the children . |
| 20 | We acted , sang , danced — hoping always for temperate weather , dreading the sudden heat waves which lost us audiences as surely as rain and snow kept them at home — burlesques with preposterous titles ( Very Little Hamlet , The Vicar of Wideawakefield ) , comedies , farces . |
| 21 | Bella did n't want to be called guilty ; her instinct was always for ambiguity . |
| 22 | Brother Rhun , Saint Winifred 's devoted cavalier , turned his beautiful head instantly to look towards her altar , his first jealous care being always for her service and worship . |
| 23 | His Puritan inclinations found favour with the electorate of Poole , which he first represented in the Addled Parliament of 1614 , and he sat , always for Dorset constituencies , in ten of its next twelve successors . |
| 24 | First , every Act of Parliament , in effect , says that if a certain state of facts exists the tribunal may do a certain thing ; those facts are always for the relative decision of the tribunal . |
| 25 | German ‘ pure ’ contrapuntal keyboard music was at first always for organ , not harpsichord , and stylistically modelled on the Venetians , as may be seen in the two fantasies and two canzoni francese in Paix 's book and the various organ works of Hassler and his successor at Augsburg , Christian Erbach ( c. 1570–1635 ) . |
| 26 | There were a number of names familiar to the trade in the lists , though not always for doing what they are most familiar for . |
| 27 | ‘ Oh well , ’ he said , going as always for the muddly middle way , and hoping to struggle along it to safety . |
| 28 | Children are always for analysis , usually by their parents , they do n't usually come of their . |
| 29 | Let us pray that we may be granted the wisdom necessary to discern the values of the new culture created by the mass media , and to use the opportunities offered by modern communications technology always for the service of God and the good of his people . |
| 30 | Her love was always for her people , and the quotations from her historic speeches ( which are not set to music ) represent her carefully-chosen communications to them . |